I have been mentoring students undertaking their Executive MBA at RMIT recently. The unit is Consultancy where they undertake a real life consulting project working with a client and with a mentor who provides support and learning from their industry experience as a consultant. It is a different way of learning but has some direct translation to real life practice and transfers the paradigm from academic to practical and experiential. The learnings are around developing a consultancy project, understanding the client/consultant relationship, questions of ethics, collaboration and understanding the issue and questions of expert. Saturday was their presentation of recommendations to the client which is followed up by a report for the client. The process is of three way benefit, students, client and mentor.